The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 19, 1924, Page 8

FIREBUG KILLS — 13 IN FLAMES ON TRIAL Charged as Hit-and- Run Driver Police Arrest Epileptic for)» Razing Tenement NEW YORK, F tie ie be! set a crowded East eved to be flames carly Teast 13 lives The shuffling her hy a passing 5 man was ar able to give Flames were lower levels 0 discovered by Heustine. Almost & ward he the man emerging from and placed him under arr The suspect Lewis Schoent saw ve his name 4 and his address in & street several blocks from where the fire occurred. He had army discharge papers and a small vial of white powder In his pockets “I haven’ search me !f you when soized by the p Heusline whistled for and held his man until a detective arrived. ING FAMILIES 4 AROUSED The patrolman then dashed thru flames which already were roaring thru the lower hallways of the tene ment, and made his way to the upper floors, beating on doors to arouse the sleeping fami! Additional as assistance licemen arrived and aided in sav the lives of many housed in the five-story building. The dedd were suffocated in thelr beds as the flames mushroo! on the two upper floors, filling them with thick, acrid smoke. Scores of the tenants saved their lives by Jumping onto adjacent roofs. Chief Inspector Dominick Henry believed the fire undoubtedly was in- cendiary and that the firebug started It by throwing lighted newspapers ni & lower hallway. He believed ‘the man who started jt may be the samo }yromaniac who started several fires | on the Jower east side last year, Schoenfeld, the man arrested, was | Twelve jurors have been picked to try Ole Knutson on a charge of running down land killing 23-year-old Ilene: his |\ Branshaw, cripple, with automobile shortly before Christmas. Photo by Price & ¢ HERE’S MORE ABOUT DAUGHERTY STARTS ON PAGE 1 Roosevelt has stated that he would not resign, but it has been freely T - ) SAYS KNUTSON President Promoter of DIDN'T CONFESS Sears Denies Man Admitted Running Down Girl Ole admitted tha hin car atruck 1 year crippled girl ¢ December 23, inflic from which #h ft William Knute witnem day of slaughter cha Maska cod fisher Knute Knutson nev anyone. and sald “Never re) mind as has Kicked th Ly Had Ole to! »* sald Sears “Then you lied, didn't you? shouted "Vanderveer, Jumping to his feet anG pointing an ac finger at Sears cusing Se 4 to elim Judge Tallman, speak sharply, sald: Just a inin the ¢ veer, when ate, gentiemer Vanderveer warna erveer asked for an exces . which was allowed. Deputy Pre Macfarlane ir troduced Knutso ad but didn't know ! the night and at Branshaw girl's fatal injury Tallman admitted it in evidence. 4 it was read to the jury, Hal ;Armatrong, a reporter for a Seattle paper, was next on tho stand. Knutson was arrested as the di rect result of a story In The Star, statement made t the time of his arr the spot ¢ Ju HE SEATTLE STAR Mayoralty Ballot In The Seattle Star’s Straw Vote I VOTE for. My name i AUTO EXHIBITS [{ — Borah-Daugherty Battle START MARCH 3 Dealers Plan Show in Own Agencies Next Month for mayor Coolidge Watches Silently During Dramatic Scene at White House WASHINGTON Seattle's “Autom stated the people did not belie in Daugherty, and that no r » had lost public confide uld remain at the head ¢ the pu My address at nday night when in the presence Bena | 4 of Joa These mayoralty race, Brown three who have filed for the your selection fror ong them: Alfred H. Lundin Oliver T. Erickson (Mall to Straw Vote Editor of The Star and Watch the Paper for Dally Totals.) Booze Deaths on EX-POLICEMAN i 5 Decrease in East SHOT IN HEAD PHIL LPHIA, F 1 D are men department on ¥ depends for Ju A ho uasion and Borah f demar between himself Paves Jay or Friday of last Senator Borah maw C. Bas Coolidge’ wes Doral t Daughert Daugherty resented attitude and appeared to reg the suggestion, oc ox Borah, as unwarran 4 i dling machinery 1 re Thru it all the presid t | posting of banner ut saying @ treet cars cause he has and tha once had ne ‘The business sexston, Jepartmen banquet, was in cb them as he we Autor The than told Mr r Coolidge y night On the president tele ton 6 Trades dincum halt herty said th jon was c an Final) th honed Senator Boral to to the White He Horah is ot come He received Dau 1 told Youthful Chicken Thief in Custody J, Guettel b in him his views abou Daugt man ¢ Fifteen minutes ja arther w aut the arrived and jolne president ‘The most recent tssue on Le Gincloses wo! Now, senator, I would state 4 the pre. can makers m ama Hora? orty ereupon told Daugt he ought to resign. He ers and w Manufacturers of Northwest Products Are Tapping the Resources of the Northwest They are developing possibilities into industrial certain- ties; are attracting outside money; and are creating well-paid jobs! Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2 P. M. Merchant Dy enaders handise, put on Marche Woman's th a All this means that the Pacific Northwest is being made a > ; a itoran better place to live in—and a safer place to invest in. The cae 2 * es is Pp tinu h HARDEMAN nt Hardeman Hat Co, lie Baldwin, Mina Betty Les ence Dt. Moyer, Mrs. Patric Mra. Lucy Wand, Mra. B ter, Mra, M y : Patterson. i" ribo way we can help the Northwest—and ourselves—is by buying Fourth Ploor—The Bon Marche and using Northwest Products. held for investigation. ROOSEVELT IS HELD GUILTY WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—Resig-| nation of Theodore Roosevelt, sistant secretary of the navy, was/| demanded in the senate by Senator} REGARDS DEMAND Harrison, Mississippi, during a bit-| AS UNWARRANTED ter partisan debate on the oll scan-| Daugherty. regards the demand of dals, | Senator Borah, Idaho, that he resign | 545° ai teas ? “Roosevelt is just ag guilty as| because he lost the publiq confidence baat noes ot aon aver Steretary Denby," declared Harri-| as unwarranted. here te tue Guaation ancet the ‘pires to be governor) Borah, summoned to the White | car,” Glass . “It will be pur He has let his| House by President Coolidge, made| chased. It would have been bought Teietide oclicve tos: he i» now the| his demand to Daugherty’s face, and | before this but for a alight disagree Seerctary of the navy in fact. jthe president, who knew Borah/| ment as to what typé should be em If Denby gets out, Roosevelt} would make it, and summoned) ployed. Personally, I am for the should get out, too, Everyone con-| Daugherty to hear it, sald nothing. | best equipment possible.” Mected with thiy damnable episode | This was taken here to mean that cian TO THOSE hould be driven from the public| Mr. Coolidge hoped Daugherty would | Now IN USE service.” jaccept the White House conference |” rie auto will be of a type similar Harrison said he had read a stato-| 0% a hint that his withdrawal would}; that employed in other larke iment in the newspapers yestertay| not be displeasing to the administra:| ities where they have been proved quoting Roosevelt as saying yester- | tion. to be entirely successful. fay, “Ll am not resigning” as he| Refusing to say anything publicly,| Captain of Detectives Charles Teft the Whit: House followirs | Daugherty today created the tmpres-| Tennant déclared Tuesday be wax fonference with ‘he president. sion that the harder his critics|in favor of the armored autos. After “If tho prestient refused to ac j bound him the tighter be will stick| running down a dozen different cept Roosevelt's resignation, why|to his post, unless Mr. Coolidge dl-| clues to the bandits, who robbed the 4M he accept Nenne’s?” demandd | rectly asks him to resign. two messengers Monday, Tennant Harrison. “Why make fish of one| Daugherty, thru his friends, chal-|said he “had obtained nothing of find fowl of the other?" | lenged investigation by the senate of | value in tho search.” | es | his connection with the of! leasing} An order to round up all ex.con- Have you lost something? Place | cases, or with speculation in stocks|victs and suspected gunmen now @ small ad in the Star's Want Ad|or any other phase of the scandal|in the city was ordered Tuesday columns. Thousands of eyes will| which yesterday forced Secretary of|by Tennant in an attempt to appre help you find what is lost. the Navy Denby to quit. 'hend the yegsmen. 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